MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S
| 1970 – 105′ – Drama, Romantic Comedy, Classic.
Written & Directed by: Eric Rohmer.
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger, Anne Dubaut, Marie-Claude Rozier.
Official selection Cannes International Film Festival 1969. Two Academy Awards Nominations (Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film).
Official Selection TAFFF 2022 (Special Screening).
In French with English subtitles.
A Max release. |
The Catholic Jean-Louis, (Jean-Louis Trintignant), runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal (Antoine Vitez), in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud (Françoise Fabian) and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal’s life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud’s. Jean-Louis’ Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.